Try the Miles Franklin letter and the CMRE dinner

11:57a ET Friday, September 18, 2009

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

A couple of announcements. ...

The Miles Franklin Ltd. coin and bullion shop in Wayzata, Minnesota, which is run by the Shectman family, is a long-time supporter of GATA, has been highly recommended by other GATA supporters, and publishes an excellent and free weekly letter on the precious metals markets. To subscribe, send an e-mail to Jackie Dahl at jdahl@milesfranklin.com. Anyone in the United States who requests the newsletter is entitled to purchase a new silver American Eagle 1-ounce coin from the company for just $15. You can subscribe and get your discounted coin in one swoop by sending an explanatory note with your e-mail address and a check for $15 here:

Miles Franklin Ltd.
1001 Twelve Oaks Center Drive
Suite 1028
Wayzata, Minnesota 55391

Just one coin purchase per household, please.

And the fall dinner meeting of the Committee for Monetary Research and Education will be held in New York on Thursday, October 15, and will feature some speakers of special interest to GATA supporters, including:

-- Edwin Vieira Jr., author of "Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the U.S. Constitution," a lawyer, Harvard University graduate, and consultant to GATA.

-- David Tice, founder of the Prudent Bear Fund, now chief strategist for Bear Markets at Federated Research.

-- John Williams, publisher of the Shadow Government Statistics newsletter.

-- Barry Ritholtz, author of "Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy" and CEO of FusionIQ Investment Partners in New York.

-- Bob Hoye of Institutional Advisors in Vancouver, whose market commentaries are published frequently at gold-oriented Internet sites.

The CMRE meeting will be held at the University Club, 1 West 54th St., New York, not too far from Grand Central Station and a block from the subway station at Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street. Cocktails will be served at 4:30 p.m. with the speakers beginning at 5 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m., and the final speakers beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets will be $175 for CMRE members and spouses and $195 for others. Checks for reservations should be made payable to CMRE and sent to:

Committee for Monetary Research and Education
10004 Greenwood Court
Charlotte, North Carolina 28215

For more information, contact CMRE President Elizabeth Currier at cmre@bellsouth.net or 704-598-3717.

Your secretary/treasurer plans to attend and hopes to see other GATA supporters there.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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